Apple Mail drag to Bear works intermittently

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  • Bear Version:2.4.5
  • OS Version: iPadOS 18.5
  • What were you doing: Dragging Apple Mail to Bear 2
  • What feature did you use: Drag email to Bear
  • What happened: Never get the green + button
  • What did you expect to happen: expected (and sometimes did) get the green + button and successfully dragged and dropped
  • The feature always works on Mac.
  • The feature works about 40% of the time on iPad.
  • I use Split View and implement the dragging from the list view of emails in Apple Mail.
  • If the drag and drop fails, I then have tested whether it’s Apple Mail by replacing Bear in the Split View with NotePlan, Notes, or Things-that always works as expected.
  • Since I don’t see anyone else having an issue with this, I have really tried hard to figure out if I’m not grabbing the mail correctly or if Bear is not in the right state to receive it. I always make sure I’m editing a note and I’m dropping it into a section of the note with other content above and below it.
  • I’m at a loss. Thoughts?
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I’m also experiencing the same issue on both iPadOS 18.5 and iOS 18.5
Bear Version is 2.4.5

The problem has existed for several months for me.

Like you, I drag and drop Apple Mail items to several other apps and they continue to work fine.

My workaround since first experiencing this issue has been to add a blank line where I wish to drag/drop the Apple Mail. This works best in split screen mode.

  • This was not previously the case
  • Nor is this the case for the other apps I drag/drop Apple Mail messages to.
  • It’s not perfect but gets the job done for me. :slightly_smiling_face:

FYI, The problem exists for other Drag/Drop compliant apps. E.g. I drag URLs for Apple Books items into Bear notes and I need to apply the same workaround.

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If the drop fails, I always add a blank line to ??maybe provide a better target? But it still fails more than it succeeds.

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Hello,

Oddly, we can never make drag&drop work from Apple Mail to Bear, and we don’t have a customer behavior for it like we have on macOS. Can you please send me a screenshot or a note reporting the result of a successful drop from Mail?

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Please see attached video recording. Strange indeed.
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I’m having the same issue with the latest version of Bear and 26.2. It happens on both iPad and iPhone. Even in split screen, the workaround doesn’t work because when you go to drag the email, the Bear note stops being in edit mode, and even with multitouch, you can’t get it to register a tap to bring up the cursor while holding the mail message.

This is a critical feature for me and works fine on the Mac.